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Converting Natural Resources Into Electricity, K.K. Duvivier
Converting Natural Resources Into Electricity, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This paper provides the groundwork for understanding the conversion of natural resources, such as wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal, into electric energy. It includes a summary of the current technologies and latest statistics on their distribution among states and on land and water. It also provides an introduction to some of the legal issues related to their deployment and interconnection with the electric grid.
The Right Of Nonuse, Jan G. Laitos
The Right Of Nonuse, Jan G. Laitos
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The Right of Nonuse provides a fresh and remarkably different perspective on the real causes of the ills plaguing the world's resources and environment. It reexamines the very nature of nature, and from this new perspective, argues that what is needed is for humans to grant to natural resources a legal right to be left alone - a right of nonuse. In the process, it explores the following questions: Why do natural resources continue to be depleted and removed at an alarming rate? Why are species becoming extinct at a pace that may be unprecedented? Why does the environment continue …